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To the blog for Business Archives in Scotland. We will be sharing news business archive collections in Scotland, the National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland and other related items of interest.

The website for Business Archives in Scotland is here. This contains resources, case studies and information about the benefits of business archives.

The Strategy

The National Strategy for Business Archives in Scotland is available to read here

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Data Mapping Project

The data mapping project aimed to create a single consistent and clarified dataset for business archive collections in Scotland that provides improved and flexible information for creators, custodians and users of business archives.

Tuesday, 28 July 2009

The fifth podcast from the Records Management Today series looks at the launch of the National Strategy for Business Archives in England and Wales.

In conversation with Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowan and Sara Kinsey. Elizabeth Lomas discusses business archives and the launch of the strategy at the House of Lords.

Topics covered include:

What were the highlights of the presentations by Professor Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England), Sir Stuart Rose (CEO M&S) and Dame Stella Rimmington?

What do the Business Archives Guide and strategy hope to deliver?

What are the issues for managing business records and archives - where do the challenges and values lie?

What can the wider archive, records and information communities learn from the experience of the business archivist?

The Records Management Today series of podcasts are put together at Northumbria University's School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences. Further information about the podcast series is available here.

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